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Fine Art & Photography Portfolios: Archival Solutions MADE IN THE USA! Your personal artwork and photographs—small & large—deserve the BEST presentation & storage solutions,as the portfolios or cases you choose can GREATLY ENHANCE the work itself (all while keeping it archivally safe)!(Please click on each image for more […]
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Archive Series: Case Study – George Eastman Museum Camera & Technology Collection The first blog in this series of 9 (count ’em NINE!) blogs on the George Eastman Museum (GEM for short) offered an overview of each of […]
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Archive Series: Case Study – George Eastman Museum / Photography Collection On left: an antique Kodak box camera with barrel shutter from 1888.On right: a full-plate tintype cataloged and carefully stored in the George Eastman Museum’s vast photography collection.(Please click on each image for more […]
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(Please click on either image for more information.) Archives Series: Case Study – George Eastman Museum / An Overview First, a quick introduction. If I had to describe the entirety of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, in just one word, I simply couldn’t […]
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A Mid-Summer Thought: Three “I” Words of Genealogy Author’s Note: The following short blog is based, to a large extent, on the philosophy of genealogy and maintaining family archives. I mention this as just after Memorial Day I wrote a blog that focused on practical summer archiving projects. As you probably already know, […]
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Archives Series: Case Study – Visual Studies Workshop Dateline: September, 2016 Before we go into our overview of just what Visual Studies Workshop is all about, we must take a moment to honor Nathan Lyons, the Workshop’s founder, who passed away on August 31st, 2016. While the following blog briefly describes Nathan’s importance in the […]
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Your 4th of July Memories | Some Thoughts on Visual Genealogy QUESTION: So, just WHAT is the difference between these two 4th of July family photos??? (Please click on either image for more information.) ANSWER: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! Informal yet intimate portrait snapshots – […]
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Summer (Archival) Projects: Time to Preserve Your Life!* ( * – see below) It’s officially SUMMER!!! So, if it’s summer, it’s … … time to pack up the car and hit the road!(wear your seatbelt, see below) … time to wear that fetching […]
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American Family Archives: Preserving Toys – Old & New No matter your age – 1 to 99 – toys are a part of “who you are.” The types of toys you played with as a kid, whether homemade in the 1930s […]
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Archival Definitions: Acid Free / Buffered / Unbuffered (Please click on each image throughout this blog for more information.) The term Acid Free gets tossed around a lot! But … … just WHAT does “acid-free” actually mean??? First, a quick review: Remember 7th grade science class all those zillions […]
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